Thread by @LawrenceKSTimes

An #InternationalWomensDay thread: Here are just a few of so many stories that we’ve been honored to write, highlighting Lawrence women over the past year. 🧵

Many of these, and many future stories, will come from this team:
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If you’ve ever visited the Kansas Capitol, you might have assumed the adolescents you encountered were taking a field trip or paging for a state legislator.
Georgia Blackwood, a Lawrence High student, crushes that presumption.
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Free State High School social worker, @LHSTrackField head coach and “Super Townie” Audrey Trowbridge weaves her life experiences into empowerment lessons for Lawrence youth.
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Barb Tholen — “life-changing” journalism adviser and graphic design teacher, whose classroom students call “a magical place” at Lawrence High School — has been named a Kansas Master Teacher.
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Jessica Brown, a teacher at Sunflower Elementary, turned a "magical" moment in her classroom into a self-published picture book to help kids with social-emotional learning.
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Tiffany Lewis wants to leave a legacy — for her children, her grandchildren and beyond. With a growing compulsion to speak up when things aren’t right, have inspired her to launch her own business as a consultant: Legacy Work LLC.
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Taryn Wells, 14, has earned the 2020 Galluzzi Volunteer of the Year Award for her community work and leadership in Lawrence.
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Where you find injustice in Lawrence, you may also find Tasha Neal, organizing a resistance. This local activist is dedicated to making social and political change, and she believes the key to success is by doing it together, as a community.
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Fallon Farokhi strives to spark a love of learning for nearly 400 Sunset Hill students. With librarian positions facing possible cuts, it's a tough time for her to imagine not doing her dream job in her dream district.
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15 months after the pandemic closed it down — at least in its original form — @ladybirddiner reopened under the big “EAT” sign on Mass Street.
The new version of the spunky, funky diner is a product of everything that’s happened to it and its proprietor.
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In addition to an enthusiastic passion for history, first-year teacher Tori Mitchell offers Black students something she didn't have as a student in Lawrence schools — a teacher who looks like them.
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Lawrence High School teacher @AllieTeachingSc likes her students to learn by doing. So rather than just quiz them on planets, she had them build a whole solar system.
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Lawrence quilter and historian Marla Jackson tells powerful stories of Black resistance and freedom through textile art with vibrant colors, patterns and pieces of history.
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Camille Debreczeny grew up surrounded by family taking care of each other as part of an interconnected whole. The lead organizer for @JusticeForKS credits that culture — and her family’s immigrant background — with drawing her to community work.
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Lawrence native Catherine Bell grew up with 10 siblings, but she was the only one to take up her mom’s passion for sewing and fashion design.
Now she's passing the torch — or needle — to the kids she’s teaching in sewing classes.
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Excited to build on the mental health work she’s done in this community for 20 years, @NicoleRials has launched K. N. Rials Therapy and Consulting, to focus primarily on BIPOC and first responders.
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Let us know if you have any other favorite stories from the archives that you want us to find!

Happy #InternationalWomensDay to all, and thank you for the inspiration! 💕

P.S. This day has another special meaning for us, in case you missed it earlier. It's the anniversary of the day we started publishing.
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Please help us keep telling these stories for years to come.
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